Records of various trials and similar material.

Trial records are all cases of alleged murder of husbands by wives who had suffered domestic abuse and violence.

The records include petitions for clemency because of the abuse suffered by the perpetrators prior to the crime.

The collection consists of a microfilm of cases CA 283/60 and L173/60.

The collection contains the records of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), a civil society organisation based at the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand. It includes memoranda and other documents on political trials, conscientious objection, detentions, repression, records relating to the ANC Constitutional Committee and administrative documentation.

Court transcript (1999) of a review application to the TRC Amnesty Committee against a decision refusing amnesty for the murder of SACP general secretary Chris Hani.

Court records in the matter between Clive John Derby-Lewis / Janusz Walus and the Chairman of the Amnesty Commission, the Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Ms Limpho Hani and the SACP when Derby-Lewis and Walus took their case to the Supreme Court in an attempt to get amnesty.

AMNESTY HEARING: ELLIS PARK RUGBY STADIUM CAR BOMB 2ND JULY 1988.

IN THE AMNESTY APPLICATIONS OF:

1 AGGIE SHOKE AM8014/97.

2 HAROLD MATSHIDIDI AM8007/97.

TO BE HEARD AT JOHANNESBURG INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SERVICES, corner QUEENS ROAD & BATTERY STREET, MAYFAIR, JOHANNESBURG ON THE 3rd-7th AUGUST 1998.

DATE: 3RD TO 7TH AUGUST 1998.

MATTER: ELLIS PARK ARENA BOMBING JOHANNESBURG.

MAGISTRATES COURT BOMBING.

This collection consists of court records and correspondence relating to cases dealt with by Advocate Edwin Cameron, mainly concerning conscientious objection.

Records of the Goldstone Commission of Enquiry into events at Phola Park when members of 32 Battalion allegedly assaulted, raped and murdered certain township residents. Includes court records, affidavits, statements, photos and medical records of individuals.